d upon a man who thus diffuses his energies. You do not
expect a distinguished lawyer to clean his own clothes, a doctor
to groom his horse, a teacher to take care of the schoolhouse
furnace, a preacher to half-sole his shoes. This would be
illogical, and men are nothing if not logical. Yet a woman who
enters upon any line of achievement is invariably hampered, for
at least the early years, with the inbred desire to add to the
labor of her profession all the so-called feminine duties, which,
fulfilled to-day, are yet to be done to-morrow, which bring to
her neither comfort, gain nor reputation, and which by their
perpetual demand diminish her powers for a higher quality of
work....

Everywhere there is too much housekeeping. It is not economy of
time or money for every little family of moderate means to
undertake alone the expensive and wearing routine. The married
woman of the future will be set free by co-operative methods,
half the families on a square, perhaps, enjoying one luxurious,
well-appointed dining-room with expenses divided _pro rata_. In
many other ways housekeeping will be simplified. Homes have no
longer room for people--they are consecrated to things. Parlors
and bedrooms are full of the cheap and incongruous or expensive
and harmonious belongings of a junk shop. Plush gods hold the
fort. All the average house needs to make it a museum is the
sign, "Hands off." ...

The girl of the future will select her own avocation and take her
own training for it. If she be a houseworker, and many will
prefer to be, she will be so valuable in that line as to command
much respect and good wages. If she be an architect, a jeweler,
an electrical engineer, she will not rob a cook by mutilating a
dinner, or a dressmaker by amateur cutting and sewing, or a
milliner by creating her own bonnet. The house helper will not be
incompetent, because the development and training of woman for
her best and truest work will have extended to her also, and she
will do housework because she loves it and is better adapted to
it than to any other employment. She will preside in the kitchen
with skill and science.

The service girl of the future will be paid perhaps double or
treble her present wages, with wholesome food, a cheerful room,
an opportu